Dewain vs Dewight
American parents have registered 800 Dewains since 1880, against 528 Dewights. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dewain Dewight
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 89 years in which either name was published, Dewain for 53 years and Dewight for 36 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Dewain | Dewight | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 800 | 528 |
| Most in one year | 23 | 19 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 380 | 430 |
| Median age today | 63 | 50 |
| Peak year | 1953 | 1976 |
| Best rank | 1,592nd boys | 2,329th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1930 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 800 | 0 / 528 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Dewains alive today are over 63; half the Dewights are over 50. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dewain and Dewight.